Carolyn asks: What food myth would you like to see busted?

I think people have gone "over board" on what's good & what's bad. I eat what I want & so did my mother. She had eggs & bacon for breakfast everyday of her life. She lived to 89 & died because a doctor thought all old people needed heart meds. I've always ate what I wanted & I'm 73 & healthy.

— Anonymous

09/27/2010 - 9:35am

I am a diabetic and use splenda . I have been told that to use this or any artifical sweeteners are very bad for you.

— Anonymous

09/27/2010 - 8:45am

I would like to know if "the other white meat" is against suppose to be bad for us again?

— Anonymous

09/27/2010 - 8:44am

During a span of a few years during our childhood, our mother insisted that we eat liver at least once a week.
Didn't like it then and still don't. Since it is still being sold in grocery stores, I would like to know if there are
any benefits to adding liver to one's diet. Thanks.

— Anonymous

09/27/2010 - 2:03am

food myth? the myth that eating what I love to eat would not make me live forever like those people who always "watch" what they eat. oh! wait! those people die also, don't they!

— Anonymous

09/27/2010 - 1:25am

Is it true that an onion placed under your bed will help kill cold germs?

— Anonymous

09/26/2010 - 10:38pm

Vegetables cooked in water and drained vs vegetables cooked in soup. Enzymes, etc, that leach out during cooking are retained in the broth?

Thank you for the raw food info. I've never been interested in this diet but I have a friend who has made a religion of it and she preaches it to everyone. It is not enjoyable to eat with her. She talked a woman into going on a raw diet, even sent her to one of those expensive raw spas, said chemo would kill the woman. Within a short time, not having chemo, leaving the tumor and eating raw she died.

— Anonymous

09/26/2010 - 8:45pm

I would like to see the myth that "diet soft drinks cause obesity" busted.

— Anonymous

09/26/2010 - 8:05pm

Is coffee (caffeine) harmful and does it contribute to breast cancer? Does it harm the liver?